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Scholastic

Executive Editor

🇺🇸 New York, NY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $93K - $110K

💻 Other

🗓️ June 4th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Scholastic Corporation is hiring an Executive Editor. The Executive Editor will work under the publisher's direction to identify, acquire, and develop high-quality commercial picture books while ensuring broad rights acquisition for content creation across the company. The editor will maintain relationships with authors, illustrators, and literary agents and collaborate with marketing, sales, and design teams to optimize publishing success and manage title-level P&L creation to meet profitability metrics for picture books. 

Highlights 
  • Responsible for acquiring and developing picture books with broad rights.
  • Maintain strong author, illustrator, and agent relationships.
  • Collaborate with marketing, sales, and design teams.
  • Create title-level P&L to achieve profitability goals.
  • Requires strong editorial judgment and understanding of market trends.
  • Must have 7+ years of editorial experience and a B.A. degree.
  • Annual salary range: $93,000.00 - $110,000.00.
  • Offers a full suite of health, wellness, and retirement benefits.
  • Tuition-free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees.
  • Generous parental leave and an employee stock purchase plan.

Executive Editor Full Description

Executive Editor
New York, New York
Full time

Job Description:

THE OPPORTUNITY
Under the direction of the publisher, responsible for identifying, acquiring and developing high-quality and commercial picture books with a goal of 360 sales and exploitation across all divisions of the company; Trade, Scholastic Reading Events, and Scholastic Entertainment.   

RESPONSIBILITIES
Acquire and develop picture books properties with a focus on securing broad rights for maximum content creation opportunities across the company
Maintain strong relationships with authors, illustrators and literary agents
Collaborate with marketing, sales, and design teams to optimize publishing success
Responsible for title-level P&L creation to meet profitability metrics for picture books.

About Scholastic
For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media. As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.

Some benefits that we offer:
  • Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)
  • Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions
  • Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees
  • Generous Parental Leave Program
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount

Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.

Qualifications

HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Strong editorial judgement, creative vision, and knowledge of market trends and emerging voices  for 0-6 YO publishing
Ability to leverage agent and author relationships to secure key projects.
Excellent project management skills
Understanding of P&L forms required
Experience and Education: 
Experience:   7+ years working in editorial
Education: B.A.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Type:

Regular

Job Family Group:

Publishing

Location Region/State:

New York

Compensation Range:

Annual Salary: 93,000.00 - 110,000.00

EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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